William Miller wrote:
>I am using alphabios and doing a cdrom install. When I enter
>boot scd0:/kernels/generic.gz root=/dev/scd0 text expert linux boots but
ends at the following:
>
>VFS:MOUNTED ROOT (ISO9660 FILESYSTEM) readonly
>Freeing unused kernel memory:200k freed
>Warning: unable to open an initial console
>
>Can anyone help me
>
It looks like you booted from a CD that does not have capabilities for
device special files , like /dev/console is.
We see this a lot when people download an ISO image , and put it
on a CD with no RockRidge extentions to the ISO9660 CD format. (ie use MS
Windoze to create CD)
You can
a) make a new CD with RockRidge enabled
b) create ramdisk floppy and use this to run install from (yes , you can
still use the CD to
install from CD) by issuing something like:
(boot scd0:/kernels/generic.gz root=/dev/fd0 prompt_ramdisk=1
load_ramdisk=1 )
I think it would be worth while to mention this in the installation
manual too.
HTH
Jaap
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